A child has been airlifted to hospital after being badly mauled by a dog in Canterbury.
Police were called to a block of flats in the city shortly before 3pm today to reports of an attack.
One eyewitness said the animal involved was a ‘big, pit bull type’, KentOnline reports.
The child was flown by helicopter to a hospital in London and their condition is not yet known.
A man was arrested in connection with the attack and police officers have seized the dog.
A spokesman for Kent Police said: ‘Inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident are ongoing.’
It follows a series of dog attacks in the UK in recent months, some of which have ended with life-changing injuries or death.
On Friday, a toddler was airlifted from Faversham in Kent to a hospital in London after a dog left him with a ‘number of injuries’.
Harley Chatterton, four, needed 60 stitches after being attacked by a one-year-old Jackador in Glasgow.
Doctors warned her parents she may end up having permanent scarring as a result of the May 14 attack.
That same month, three-year-old Daniel John Twigg was identified as the toddler killed by a dog outside a property in Rochdale.
In March, 17-month old Bella-Rae Birch died after being mauled by her family’s pet dog in St Helens.
Jack Lis, 10, was mauled to death by an eight-stone dog, dubbed ‘the Beast’ as he visited a friend in Caerphilly, South Wales last November.
The dog’s owners, Brandon Hayden, 19, and Amy Salter, 29, were jailed in June.
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